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which has been applied towards repayment of the moneys borrowed from the
Metropolitan Board of Works and the interest thereon and in aid of the Poor Rate.
£ s. d
Total amount of Loans borrowed from Metropolitan
Board of Works 29000 0 0
Amount paid off 8424 0 0
£20576 0 0
Public Libraries (England) Acts, 1855 to 1887.
At a meeting of the Vestry held on the 19th March, 1889, the Vestry
proceeded to determine by ballot the three Commissioners under the "Public
Libraries Acts," who were to retire this year, and a ballot of the Vestrymen present
at the meeting having been taken accordingly, it was declared that Mr. Robert
Leishman Stuart, the Rev. Edward Josselyn Beck, Rector, and Mr. John Bulmer
were the three Commissioners who were so to retire.
At the same meeting the Vestry re-elected the following gentlemen as
Commissioners for carrying into execution in the Parish of Rotherhithe the Public
Libraries (England) Acts, 1855 to 1887, viz. : the Rev. Edward Josselyn Beck,
Mr. John Bulmer, and Mr. Robert Leishman Stuart to act in conjunction with
Messrs. Edmund Rumney Smith, John Reeson, Henry Lovel Bartlett, Henry
Hayward, Lawrence Stevens, and George Mabbs
On the 19th March, 1889, the Vestry having received an application from the
Commissioners of Public Libraries and Museums for the Parish of Rotherhithe for
the sanction of the Vestry to borrow the sum of £3,000 for the purchase of a site
and the erection of the library buildings thereon,
Mr. Bulmer stated the Commissioners had arranged for the purchase of a site
at Riches Place, Lower Road, for the erection of the Library Buildings ; and he
moved "That this Vestry hereby sanction the Commissioners for Public Libraries and
" Museums for this Parish borrowing at interest the sum of £3,000 on the security
" of a mortgage of the rates to be raised in this Parish under the provisions of the
" Public Libraries (England) Acts, 1855 to 1887, such sum of £3,000 to be applied
" and expended by the Commissioners in the construction of a Free Public Library
" in this Parish, or otherwise for the purposes of the before mentioned Acts," which
was seconded by Mr. Beasley, and unanimously Resolved.
Thames Communications.
On 4th july, 1888, the Vestry received a communication from the Clerk
to the Metropolitan Board of Works referring to the memorial presented to the
Board in June, 1887, by the Vestry of Rotherhithe, and several other Vestries and
District Boards, asking the Board to obtain powers for the construction of a lowlevel
bridge across the Thames between Rotherhithe and Shad well, and stating he